SUMMARY: A former Boeing executive who also held important positions in the Air Force and at NASA has pled guilty to conspiring to get Boeing a government contract at grossly inflated rates in exchange for a job with Boeing. By pleading guilty to conspiracy, she's asserting that others were culpable as well. Here are her photo and a report:

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Doesn't this suggest that space mission pricetags would become much more credible if NASA finally got out of the central planning business and into that of administering competitive prizes and doing research that contestants can't do but need to have done?